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August Dupré [August Dupre] autograph letter signed to [?] Turner English chemist. States that he will be happy to sign his correspondent's nephew's application for the Fellowship of the Chemical Society. '[F]rom personal knowledge I have no doubt that my friend Mr Hake [Thomas Gordon Hake, 1809-95, DNB] will do the same.' Docketed by recipient on otherwise... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £35.00 | |
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August von Kotzebue [G. M. Kraus, artist] 12mo (leaf and plate dimensions 115 x 80 mm): [ii] + 247 pp + 6 hand-coloured engravings. Good, on lightly aged and spotted paper, in heavily worn original boards, with ink stain on back board. The plays included are: [1] Das Urtheil des Paris; [2] Die Tochter Pharaonis; [3] Ruebezahl; [4]... |
Literature | £200.00 | |
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Augusta Katherine one autograph fragment signed, (died 1904), wife of Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Second daughter of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Gordon. One page, 12mo. "<...> so unhappy / Y. most sincerely / Augusta K Saxe Weimar / May 6th / 83". Docketted beneath this "Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Two grease... |
Royalty, Women | £25.00 | |
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Augusta Noel (nee Keppel) Two Autograph Letters Signed to [the Hon.] Mrs [Alicia Margaret Tyssen] Amherst. English author (1838-1902). The recipient was later Baroness Rockley. Both items are very good. They can be dated from the reference to the Noel's mother (nee Susan trotter, died 1885) and the mourning border. ITEM ONE (three pages, 12mo): 'I send you a very rough little story, for the Children'... |
Literature, Women | £45.00 | |
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[Ernest Wm Moir] E.W. Moir, Comptroller of Munitions Inventions Total 3pp., folio, fold marks, good condition. He asks the Scretary of the RSA to "draw the attention" of members to "to the fact that the Munitions Inventions Department, which ... was recently constituted by the Minister of Munitions for the purpose of dealing with ideas, suggestions and... |
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Auguste Forel [Auguste-Henri Forel] (1848-1931), Swiss entomologist and psychiatrist; Edward Clodd (1840-1930), English anthropologist; Paolo Celesia (1872-1916), Italian biologist [Jamaica; racism] The three letters are addressed to the translator of Forel's book, the surgeon and free-thinker Percival Macleod Yearsley (1867-1951). Forel's letter: 4to, 1 p. Twenty lines. In French. Text clear and complete. On browned and chipped high-acidity paper. Laid down on the front pastedown. In the... |
£180.00 | ||
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Auguste Guinnard, French traveller, who wrote an account of his three-years' captivity in Patagonia [Jules Verne; Pierre Kalfon; Benard] Autograph Letter Signed ('A Guinnard'), in French, to an unnamed male correspondent. 8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-two lines of text. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged and creased paper. It is only now that he is able to thank him for the 'bon accueil que m'a fait Monsieur Benard grâce à votre Gracieuse recommendation'. Benard has lent him 'quelques ouvrages',... |
French, Travel and Topography | £100.00 |
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Augustin Haguette, de Saint-Denis, Départment de la Seine [Didot le jeune, Paris printer] 4to: viii + 47 pp. Disbound. On foxed paper with occasional light staining. On the title-page Haguette is described as 'Bachelier-ès-lettres; ex-Officier de santé des armées; ancien Elève de l'Ecole pratique et des hôpitaux civils de Paris.' 'No. 9.' in manuscript at head of the title-page.... |
French, Science, Medicine and Technology | £40.00 | |
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[Unknown author] [Manuscript] A Genealogical table of the Royal Family of Scotland from Malcolm 2 to Robert 2. 40 x 30cm, manuscript worked over and/or added to judging by ink colour, worn, fold marks, small closed tears, some faint notes in pencil. The table begins with 83 Malcolm K. of Scots D1040 but also with the statement The Scots pretend that Malcolm 2d was the 83 K. of Scots from Fergus 1. It... |
History, Royalty | £450.00 |
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Dr P. Zaccarian (RAT) and C. B. B. Wood (BBC); Georges Hansen, editor [European Broadcasting Union, Technical Centre, Brussels] [Printed paper.] Video player and recording systems for home use. 31 + [1] pp., foolscap 8vo. Describes the features of Ampex Instavideo; AVCO Cartrivision; EVR Partnership EVR; Nordmende Colorvision; Philips VCR; Sony Videocassette; Teldec Videodisc; Vidicord; and other proposed systems. Illustrations and table in text. Stapled into brown printed wraps. Good... |
£200.00 |